Faith by Love

God doesn’t start us up on spiritual journeys and expect us to take over at any point in the flesh, all spiritual journeys are a product of obedience and dependence on God


We also progress into deeper levels of dependence with each step we take with God, till we are fully formed into His nature and we now have become so dependent that we have the same mind as Christ


Without faith we can’t come into this full nature, the “my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased” kind of nature as seen in Mathew 3:17


Faith is not something we consciously rehearse and learn, faith is something you grow into, it grows with the knowledge or with the dimensions of God you experience or understand…


On my short journey, I have come to understand there are different types of expressions of faith, which we can rather call dimensions,


A. The faith that leads you to God in initial pursuit, that’s the one manifested at salvation, borne out of a hunger for God


B. Faith that we express from a place of relationship, drives us into responsibility for the one we have Loved ( have Faith in)


We are no longer seeking an introduction, but we are seeking to please him and express his nature and intentions on the Earth


Our relationship/knowledge of Him/Faith is now the drive


There’s also another perspective I got,
God is Love and in the midst of all our earthly pursuits, we are ultimately seeking to become Love (i.e Like Jesus)


When we become like Jesus, the “Jesus at Lazarus grave” account becomes our reality, where we know the heart of the Father and we do work only that He is glorified and from a place of confidence, knowing he always answers


So in summary


All journeys with God cannot end in the flesh, it can be triggered from the flesh, but it must be maintained, expressed, and finished in faith and in the Spirit i.e A problem the Galatian church had


Our spiritual journey is meant to make us into the Love nature of the faith as expressed by Jesus, where we ultimately have the same mind as was seen in Christ


Faith grows with every increase in our knowledge of God, our access to unrevealed dimensions of God is by faith, obedience, and a continuous relationship


We start our spiritual journey by the faith that causes is to draw to God, and we end our journey by taking up the nature of Faith and Love (personalized)